The excitement is building for next week’s U.S. Senate debate as incumbent Scott Brown and challenger Elizabeth Warren intensify their battle before the high-stakes clash. After making little news in their first debate, the two candidates will be looking to score when they step up to the Tsongas Center stage for the televised event sponsored […]

AUDIO: Here are some of the stories we cover in today’s edition: In just one week, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will meet for the first presidential debate of the 2012 general election. The very first presidential debate in history was held 52 years ago today between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. Watching […]

VIDEO: WGBH discusses the replacement referees

Facebook started in a Harvard dorm room. iRobot got its start in MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. Sand 9 was founded as a Boston University Photonics Center spinout. In Boston, business and higher education have long been intertwined. And now more than ever before, a new wave of innovation is coming directly from Boston-area institutions, fueled […]

Shirley Chater, RN, PhD, FAAN, the national advisory committee chairwoman for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Executive Nurse Fellows program since its inception in 1998, has stepped down from her post, the Foundation announced. Terry Fulmer, RN, PhD, FAAN, professor and dean of the Bouve College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University, takes over the […]

VIDEO: A student-run venture accelerator is preparing tomorrow’s entrepreneurs today.

Bumped up against the week’s widespread outrage over football’s replacement referees, warm remembrances of the great NFL myth-maker Steve Sabol, who died Tuesday, didn’t stand a chance. Temporarily, at least, reaction to the zebra lockout has thoroughly overwhelmed the league’s preferred image of itself, so beautifully crafted in Sabol’s lyrical, heroic NFL Films depictions. Try […]

A new human-like robot developed and produced by a Boston company will likely find strong demand from U.S. manufacturers looking to automate repetitive tasks, according to some who follow the manufacturing sector in Massachusetts. “I’m sure (manufacturers) are going to want it,” said Barry Bluestone, director of Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional […]

The Massachusetts unemployment rate inched up to 6.3 percent in August, the second straight monthly increase. “It reflects a slowing economy,” said Northeastern University economist Alan Clayton-Matthews, who noted the financial problems in Europe in particular have hurt because the region accounts for 40 percent of Massachusetts’s exports.

A longtime resident of Windham and current student at Northeastern University has started a website built entirely around the concept of motivation. Sahil Maripuri, who has lived in town for virtually his whole life, recently began PromoteHustle.com.

Northeastern athletic director Peter Roby has been added to the NCAA’s Division I men’s basketball selection committee, filling a spot vacated when former Delaware AD Bernard Muir left for Stanford.

Dyslexia may be rooted in a problem the brain has in teasing out distinct sounds from the incoming garble, researchers say. Considered a learning disability, dyslexia makes it difficult to read and spell for the estimated 15 percent of Americans who have it. Although dyslexia causes reading problems, the disorder is often linked to subtle […]